Friday, May 1, 2009

1. It's May! This weekend we shall hide the winter coats and corduroy and pull out the open toe shoes.

2. It's Buy Indie Day! Go buy a book from your local indie. Even if you don't go buy, consider linking to the IndieBound site instead of or addition to Amazon at your blog or website. I am going over to Nicola's later to get a few things. Hmm. What shall I buy? Maybe...

5. But the biggest thing to celebrate today involves a writer far more brilliant and dedicated than Heller or Duffy. Yes, it's me. Today marks the one year birthday of this blog. Read here to see how it all started, and for directions on starting your own blog. I considered doing BIG BIG BIG things here in Jacqui's Room to celebrate, but...

6. ... I have only three more chapters to write and Ant's first draft will be done, so I am writing madly. Of course, some of it is, um, all "This is where they find the thing and then something happens." But still!

I'm baking a cyber cake for you right now. Of course, you'll have imagine it. But what better cake could there be than an imaginary one? It's just how you want it to be, minus the calories. I should bake like this more often.

Great news about the new Poet Laureate! and Happy Blogday to you, too!

We've been washing and airing all our clothes and hunting down all the open toed shoes in the house. Isn't the sound of 'May' a poem itself? It just makes me think of fresh air and sunshine and splashes of flowers...